documentary

Meanings

Plural: documentaries

Noun

a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
Such works collectively, as a genre.

Adjective

relating to or consisting of or derived from documents

Adjective Satellite

emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation

Adj

Of, related to, or based on documents.
Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.

Origin / Etymology

From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.

Synonyms

docudrama, documental, documentary film, documentational, documentative, infotainment, objective

Antonyms

fiction

Scrabble Score: 19

documentary is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
documentary is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
documentary is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

documentary is a valid Words With Friends word